Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Pull Pin, Walk Away
The words of the first Muslim Miss England seem, at first blush, to be an innocent re-interpretation of Rule #1 for Living With Me, which is, if I’m gonna be accused of something I wanna be guilty.
Hammasa Kohistani made history last year when she was chosen to represent England in the Miss World pageant.
But one year on, the 19-year-old student from Hounslow feels that winning the coveted beauty title last September was a “sugar coating” for Muslims who have become more alienated in the past 12 months.
She said: “The attitude towards Muslims has got worse over the year. Also the Muslims’ attitude to British people has got worse.
“Even moderate Muslims are turning to terrorism to prove themselves. They think they might as well support it because they are stereotyped anyway. It will take a long time for communities to start mixing in more.”
Yeah that makes perfect sense already, see. I’m a Muslim, and I don’t blow people up, see, nor do I support acts of terror. But those dirty little western people with their decadent lifestyles and their movies made by the filthy Jew, keep accusing me of supporting terrorism…I figure, what the fuck, I might as well. And so, I “turn to terrorism” according to her.
It’s just the only logical thing to do. Get discriminated against…turn to terrorism. Two Muslims face discrimination, one turns to terrorism and the other one doesn’t…what does Ms. Kohistani have to say about the one that does not? Which of the Muslims has something to learn from the other? It appears she isn’t even considering this. It’s like she’s saying terrorism is obligatory, once you are “stereotyped.” Even the moderate Muslims are doing it, after all.
Life gets complicated in a great big hurry for Ms. Kohistani when one starts to ponder the course of action to be engaged with this useful epiphany…if we stop stereotyping, will the moderate Muslims stop supporting terrorism?
“It is not for me to answer how to get people to turn away from terrorism. The politicians don’t know what to do and I am just a 19-year-old.”
I see, I see. In a life-and-death situation, we’re supposed to have faith in this adorable little psychoanalysis of passive supporters of terrorism…surely, sufficient thought must have gone into it, to ensure it’s an accurate reflection of what’s going on. Oopsie, though! Not enough thought has gone into it, to figure out what to do with it. That’s for somebody else. Cut her some slack, she’s only nineteen. But when she assigns blame, against the direction of common sense, don’t worry she knows exactly what she’s talking about there. She’s more an authority on who’s-at-fault, than Santa is on who’s-naughty-who’s-nice.
Just don’t ask her what to do…because, you see, that would require some responsibility being invested in the veracity of her theory.
This stupid girl is simply unaccustomed to a culture in which people are free to form their own opinions. You say stuff, and what you get to decide in such a culture is — the stuff you say. Nothing more. Just the gutteral sounds. People get to interpret that however they wish, which is where she’s having a tough time fitting in. She’s clearly expecting to distribute a message of “they who support terrorism are not at fault, the blame goes to those who notice them supporting terrorism” — and for people to actually pick up on that message. Exactly the way she wants them to. Why not? It’s what she wants, she’s the one speaking, and it’s not like people should be free to form their own thoughts about what she said. It doesn’t even seem to be occurring to her what a thoroughly miserable job she’s done of representing a) England b) Muslims c) the pageant d) nineteen-year-olds and e) pretty women.
Thanks to her incredibly ignorant comments, just speaking for myself, I’ve got a fresh impulse to get the voting age raised, throw some tea into Boston harbor, repeal womens’ suffrage and profile at the airports. Isn’t it ironic? That impulse is the natural result of the very logic she’s trying to use…except it doesn’t seem to occur to her, that the principle may have an effect on anyone besides the poor, oh-so-put-upon, “yeah we support terrorism but we have a great excuse for doing so” Muslims.
I guess if you’re a Muslim, you get to make decisions about what’s going on, and what to do about it…and if you’re not, you don’t.
What a dirty, racist little bitch.
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